Jasper von Oertzen (community movement)

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Jasper von Oertzen (born August 10, 1833 in Rostock , † November 14, 1893 in Hamburg ) was a leading figure in the community movement in Germany.

Life

Jasper von Oertzens grave cross at the Leppin cemetery

Jasper von Oertzen came from the Mecklenburg primitive noble family von Oertzen and was the third child of the Judiciary Council of the same name and later Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Jasper von Oertzen (1801–1874). The mother came from the Hamburg merchant family Schuback. Oertzen grew up on Gut Leppin (now part of Lindetal ), which his father acquired in 1836 . He joined the Austrian cavalry as an officer candidate, but broke off his career as an officer prematurely for health reasons, and his attempt to establish himself as a farmer also failed. Von Oertzen was shaped in 1868 by an encounter with Minister Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg and Johann Hinrich Wichern , with whom he felt connected from then on. In 1870 he took over the management of the boarding school in the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg and was then head of the newly founded Hamburg city mission from 1875 to 1884 . From 1873 he chaired the Schleswig-Holstein State Association for Internal Mission and was President of the North German Men's and Youth Association from 1880. From 1885 von Oertzen chaired the YMCA in Hamburg. With Andreas Graf von Bernstorff and Eduard von Pückler , he initiated the Gnadau Conferences from 1888 , of which he became chairman. He is considered to be one of the founders of the “modern community movement in Germany”.

After his death, his friends organized a collection of money in his memory and used it to build the Oertzenhaus in Hamburg as the headquarters of the North German Association of Men and Young Men .

Oertzenstrasse in Hamburg-Niendorf is reminiscent of Oertzen .

literature

  • Wilhelm Sillem:  Oertzen, Jasper von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 715-718.
  • Jürgen Wehrs: Jasper von Oertzen: a baron on the Inner Mission. Hamburg, CVJM-Nordbund, 1993.
  • Arno Pagel (Ed.): Jasper von Oertzen. A picture of life. Berlin, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1962.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7200 .
  • D. von Oertzen: Jasper von Oertzen a worker in the kingdom of God. A picture of life by D. von Oertzen. Publishing house by Otto Rippel, Hagen i. Westf., Undated

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J. Ohlemacher: Oertzen, Jasper von (1833-1893) . In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 3 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-417-24643-1 , p. 1456 .
  2. ↑ Reiner Knieling: Oertzen, Jasper v. In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies . 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 6 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , Sp. 459 .
personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Jasper from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Person of the German community movement
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1893
Place of death Hamburg